Questions with Elizabeth, age 4

Interview with Elizabeth:

1. What is your favorite color? purple
2. What is your favorite toy? Rock star guitar
3. What is your favorite fruit? Watermelon
4. What is your favorite tv show? Peppa Pig
5. What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch? Peanut Butter and Jelly
6. What is your favorite outfit? Purple dress
7. What is your favorite game? Uno
8. What is your favorite snack? Raisins
9. What is your favorite animal? Zebra
10. What is your favorite song? Jesus Loves Me

 
11. What is your favorite book? Sophia
12. Who is your best friend? Karis13. What is your favorite cereal? Blue kind
14. What is your favorite thing to do outside? Play tag
15. What is your favorite drink? Chocolate milk
16. What is your favorite holiday? Christmas 
17. What do you like to take to bed with you at night? teddy bear, Elsa, sackie, Sophia, lots of anmalals

 
18. What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast? Baked Oatmeal
19. What do you want for dinner on your birthday? potato bar, donuts
20. What do you want to be when you grow up? Fire hydrant... (fighter)
21. What was your favorite thing about being 3? playing with my sisters
22. What are you looking forward to about being 4? watch something, going to nursery school

Happy Birthday to... Baba, Lizzle, Liz Biz, Biz Boz, Lizzie, Betty, Musk Ox, Crazy Uncle, ...

Elizabeth Anne Olson

We love you!

Daddy Birthday Cakes #14 and #15

Although I posted these on Facebook, here are Hannah's 7th birthday cake and Grace's 5th birthday cake. Way to go, Daddy Daryl!

Hannah wanted an owl for her 7th birthday cake.

The cake designer and his daughter

Quinn and Jenny helped celebrate Hannah's birthday

Grace wanted a butterfly for her 5th birthday.

Tolu, Tito, Karis and Elizabeth celebrated at Gracie's first "real" party.

Mariana and Hannah with the birthday girl.

Mario, Bethany, and Clara with Gracie and Hannah

The cake baker with his middle daughter!

Elizabeth' Birthday Party and Cake

Monday, a week ago, we had a little birthday supper for Elizabeth. We asked her who she wanted to come and she said "Karis and Elsa." As much as we would have loved to have her cousin, Elsa, an Idaho plane ticket didn't seem likely, but we did have Karis and her brother, Nico, as well as her mom and aunt. For a third friend, she invited Michael. He was not able to come, but his mom came to represent the family.

Hannah was our party planner and designer. She and Daddy made this penguin and polar bear for a table centerpiece. The theme became "North and South Pole" because as everyone knows penguins and polar bears do not live at the same pole.

Hannah and Daddy created two "poles." Here is Elizabeth and Hannah standing in front of one of them.

Here are our party guests enjoying Elizabeth's request of pizza, tootons (croutons) and poppyseed dressing.

Then, the Crème de la Crème daddy's birthday cake for his 3 year old!

Happy Birthday, Elizabeth!

Questions with Grace, age 4

Happy 4th Birthday, Grace!

Interview with Grace:

1. What is your favorite color? red
2. What is your favorite toy? baby dolls
3. What is your favorite fruit? strawberries
4. What is your favorite tv show? DoDo (Dora the Explorer)
5. What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch? fruit
6. What is your favorite outfit? dress-up clothes
7. What is your favorite game? Yatzee
8. What is your favorite snack? Donuts
9. What is your favorite animal? Zebras
10. What is your favorite song? Jesus Loves Me
11. What is your favorite book? Max and Ruby
12. Who is your best friend? Another Grace (her 2nd cousin)
13. What is your favorite cereal? Kix
14. What is your favorite thing to do outside? play
15. What is your favorite drink? punch
16. What is your favorite holiday? Easter
17. What do you like to take to bed with you at night? My sack
18. What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast? Eggs
19. What do you want for dinner on your birthday? Cookie and whatever you want for the rest
20. What do you want to be when you grow up? teacher
21. What was your favorite thing about being 3? my sackie
22. What are you looking forward to about being 4? playing grown-up and maybe read a couple books at pre-school

Anything else you want to say? Maybe just sign my name.
grace

Last week at Grandma's house, daddy decorated a special cake for the birthday girl. In honor of being at the farm, Grace had asked for a "cow" cake. Daddy does it again!

 

Hannah's birthday

This past Sunday we celebrated Hannah's birthday with some of our church family. She wanted fish, salad, and fruit salad, so we had baked haddock, burgers on the grill, fruit salad, veggie salad, and chips. It was a really nice afternoon.

The party would not be complete without daddy's 11th birthday cake. Hannah wanted a butterfly birthday, so she designed the decorations...

and daddy designed the cake to match. She was SO EXCITED that he had used her design.

(No the cake had not been eaten... the humidity had gotten to the frosting!)

Daddy and his 6 year old firstborn!

On Monday, Hannah had 3 of her kindergarten friends over for a birthday playdate. That was a lot of fun too!

Decorating vases...

and decorating cupcakes!

Happy Birthday, sweet girl!

Celebrating Mommy's birthday

In the midst of everything that has happened in Boston this week, I was blessed by 3 days of celebrating with my family. We experienced joy, while so many others were in sorrow. It is hard to reconcile that sometimes.

The girls had so much fun planning the birthday surprises with daddy, although it was tough for them to keep secrets. They asked me over and over again in the days leading up to my birthday if they could tell me. I told them I didn't want to know, much to their disappointment.

On Wednesday, Daryl took the day off and we spent the morning with the girls on their bikes.  We went to Bradley Palmer State Park where they have a road closed to motorized traffic. It was perfect for little girls learning to ride their bikes.

The girls are ready to go!

Lizzle decide picking up sticks was much more fun!

Hannah is riding! (As long as she doesn't scare herself and head into the woods!)

Gracie proudly wearing her "Poppi" helmet.

 On Thursday, while I was at work, Daryl and the girls prepared a lovely birthday supper of steak tips (from the grill), rainbow fruit salad, and couscous. YUMMY

The table is set and ready for mommy!

The beautiful birthday flowers with the "mommy balloon." (Hannah says: "We had to have yellow hair because we didn't have brown streamers.")

My raised bed, garden cake ~ complete with oreo dirt, wafer sides, gummy worms and sprouts.

Mommy and her girls

To complete my days of celebration, Daryl got a our friends to watch the girls and took me out to dinner. It was lovely!

Elizabeth's Monkey Birthday Cake

The 10th cake has been made and partially consumed! Daddy does it again. His labor of love for his 2 year old little girl.

Daddy hard at work shaping the cake and making the fondant.

Creating the arms and legs (at this point, I went to bed!)

Mr. Monkey... ready to celebrate Elizabeth's birthday!

Family Birthday dinner

Mashed potatoes, green beans, teriyaki chicken, rolls... yummy!

Happy Birthday to you... (she started singing "Happy Birthday to Nana")

Blow out your candles

Daddy and the birthday girl

Cheese!